Gettit vs eBay: Which Is Better for Australian Sellers in 2026?

On this page

• The short answer
• Ten days old against twenty-seven years
• Reach: one number, and one blank
• What the seller pays
• What the buyer pays, and why it still matters to you
• Worked examples: $60, $400 and $1,000
• When the money arrives
• Postage: Australia Post either way, on different terms
• Trust, protection and who carries the risk
• Listing tools: what Gettit does not have
• Which stock belongs where
• Running both without selling one item twice
• What FLUF costs
• Sources and verification
• Related guides

The short answer

List on eBay for buyers. List on Gettit for a cleaner deal on the sales you make there, and for the baby-and-kids stock it was built around. If you are an Australian seller with under $25,000 a year in eBay sales, neither marketplace takes a cent from you, so the comparison is really about who your buyer is, what they pay on top, how quickly you are paid, and how much manual work each one hands you.

That is a different comparison from the one most fee guides run. Both platforms moved their cost onto the buyer in 2026, within four months of each other. The buyer fee shapes your pricing on both, and it is higher on Gettit at every price point we tested. Reach, payout timing and tooling then separate them sharply, and all three favour eBay. What Gettit offers in return is structural: a held payment on every posted order, a prepaid label, a dispatch clock, and no commission ever, at any volume.

Ten days old against twenty-seven years

eBay launched its Australian site in 1999. A 2020 eBay press release marking its 21st year put it at 11 million unique visitors a month and 40,000 Australian retailers. In its Q2 2026 results the company said it had “further enhanced the C2C experience in Australia, streamlining the end-to-end selling experience with AI-powered listing tools, simplified shipping, secure payments and stronger buyer protections” — which is corporate shorthand for the May 2026 overhaul that this page is largely about.

Gettit is operated by Gettit Pty Ltd, ACN 699 431 886, governed by the law of Victoria, with terms effective 1 August 2026. Its site announced it would open on 31 August 2026 and now carries a “Gettit is live” banner. It describes itself as “Australia’s marketplace for preloved, including the gear everyone else says no to,” and its homepage says plainly that “Baby and kids is where we are deepest, and where nobody else will go,” with prams, car seats and nursery furniture flagged as categories found “only here.” It has iOS and Android apps, a 1800 support line, and a written promise of a reply within one business day.

Who funds it, how many people have registered, and how many items are live are not published anywhere we could find. We have not guessed at any of them.

Reach: one number, and one blank

eBay reported 136 million active buyers on a trailing twelve-month basis for the quarter ending 30 June 2026, with international GMV growing and Australia named among the markets showing sequential improvement. That is a global figure; eBay does not break out a current Australian buyer count, and the 11 million monthly visitors above is six years old. Third-party estimates of 12 million monthly Australian users circulate, but they are estimates, so we do not lean on them.

Gettit publishes nothing comparable. Its search page renders 24 listing cards at a time, and seller cards on the homepage show individual wardrobes of between one and roughly sixty items. That is what a marketplace looks like in its second week. It is not a criticism, but it is the fact that governs everything else: an item on Gettit is seen by a small, local, still-forming audience, and an item on eBay is seen by anyone in Australia or abroad who types the right words.

For a seller the practical consequence is simple. Gettit cannot be your only channel for anything you need to sell this month. It can be a second channel that costs you nothing and occasionally produces a cleaner sale than eBay does.

What the seller pays

The table covers domestic sales in Australian dollars. eBay’s figures include GST, as its fee page states.

Two things in that table deserve a closer look. The first is that eBay’s $25,000 threshold counts “including tax and shipping” over a rolling twelve months, and the move to Pro Starter is automatic. A seller turning over $2,100 a month in items plus postage crosses it without ever choosing to. Once you are there, a $100 sale costs $13.70 in fees, and Gettit’s zero becomes a genuine difference rather than a tie.

The second is the Pro store ladder. eBay’s store fee page lists Pro Basic at $27.45 a month with final value fees from 8.03% to 11.77% depending on category tier, Pro Featured at $82.45, and Pro Anchor at $604.95. Fashion, collectables and media sit in the highest tier: 13.09% on Pro Starter, 11.77% on Pro Basic, 11.11% on Pro Featured. Home appliances and technology devices are the cheapest tier at 13.4% falling to 6.82% on Anchor. Gettit has no ladder because it has nothing to discount.

What the buyer pays, and why it still matters to you

A seller who reads “no fees” and stops there will misprice. Both marketplaces now charge the buyer at checkout, and buyers compare the total, not the item price. The fee is invisible on your statement and fully visible on theirs.

eBay’s page is explicit that the fee is charged only on purchases from “Australia-based sellers who don’t have a Pro plan” and that it excludes Vehicles and Classified Ads. It is refunded in full on cancellations, returns and non-arrival, and proportionally on partial refunds. Gettit’s is likewise “always refunded when you do not end up with the item.”

Notice the shapes. Gettit’s buyer fee is a flat percentage with a small fixed component, so it scales with price without limit. eBay’s is stepped and capped: heavy on the first $20, lighter above $500, and nothing beyond $5,000. On cheap items they land close together. On anything over about $100, Gettit’s buyer is paying more, and by $1,000 the gap is $25. If you list the same item at the same price on both, the Gettit buyer sees a higher total.

Worked examples: $60, $400 and $1,000

Three posted, domestic sales, before postage. Figures are calculated directly from each platform’s published schedule and rounded to the cent.

Read across the rows. For a sub-threshold eBay seller, the seller keeps the same on both, and the eBay buyer pays less, so eBay wins on price alone. For a Pro seller, Gettit is $8 to $134 better per sale on these examples, and the Pro seller’s buyer pays no protection fee, which flatters the eBay listing price. Whether that is worth the reach you give up is the whole question, and it has different answers for a $60 jumper and a $1,000 pram.

When the money arrives

This is the difference sellers notice first and fee tables never show.

On a Melbourne-to-Perth parcel, Gettit’s model means dispatch day plus transit plus up to two days plus Stripe’s own settlement before you see money. eBay, on the same sale, typically has the funds available while the parcel is still on your kitchen table. Neither is wrong. Gettit’s hold is the mechanism that funds its buyer guarantee, and it says so. But if cash flow is tight, that gap is a real cost that no percentage captures.

Postage: Australia Post either way, on different terms

Both platforms route domestic parcels through Australia Post, which makes the difference about control rather than carrier.

On Gettit the buyer chooses a shipping option at checkout and pays for it, and the seller receives a prepaid Australia Post label from Gettit to drop at a post office or parcel locker. You pick the satchel or box size when you list; Gettit’s FAQ is precise about why, noting that a genuine Australia Post satchel is “one flat price for anything up to 5 kg,” and that a 500 g jumper in a 5 cm-thick mailer “costs around $4 more to send” than the same jumper in a real medium satchel. There is no choice of carrier and no option to post it yourself with your own label. You then have three business days from label issue to lodge, or the order is cancelled, the buyer refunded, and a missed dispatch recorded against you.

On eBay, sellers without a Pro plan must now buy their label through eBay for most domestic orders between $20 and $5,000, with exceptions for lightweight envelopes and local pickup. Labels are Australia Post or Sendle, and eBay’s Australia Post page advertises “up to 35%” off retail, varying by destination, with Parcel Post, Express Post, signature on delivery and extra cover. Since April 2026 you can also skip the printer entirely: a QR code is scanned and printed in store. Pro sellers keep the choice of any carrier. Handling time is yours to set, and eBay measures you against it.

Gettit’s free-post badge is worth knowing about as a seller: on selected items Gettit itself covers postage, which its homepage frames as saving the buyer “ten bucks.” There is no published rule for which items qualify. eBay’s buyer-side equivalent is eBay Plus, a $4.99-a-month or $49-a-year membership giving free express delivery to metro addresses and free returns on badged items — a retail programme that most private sellers’ listings will not carry.

Trust, protection and who carries the risk

Gettit Protection is described in its own FAQ as “Gettit’s own purchase guarantee for shipped orders paid through the Platform,” covering non-arrival and items materially not as described, capped at the amount paid. It is explicitly “NOT insurance.” Change of mind and “minor variations consistent with a used item” are excluded. The dispute path runs while the money is still held, which is why buyers on Gettit have leverage without a chargeback. Sellers get a matching structure: a return the buyer initiates must be dispatched within three business days of the return label, you then have 48 hours from the returned parcel’s delivered scan to inspect, and if you do nothing the refund goes through.

The part of Gettit most sellers will not expect is that local handovers are not protected at all. A cash meet-up is a private transaction “off Gettit’s payment flow,” done “entirely at your own risk.” The bridge between the two is Secured Pickup: the buyer pays in-app, inspects in person, and releases the money by giving you a six-digit code. That costs the buyer 3.5% and gives both of you a held payment and a record of the sale. Nothing on eBay works quite like it.

eBay’s buyer protection is the eBay Money Back Guarantee, now funded for non-Pro sellers by the Buyer Protection fee introduced on 12 May 2026. The seller’s obligations are the familiar ones: honour your stated returns policy, respond to cases, and stay above the performance threshold or pay the 5.5% Below Standard surcharge. The dispute fee of $24.20 is charged when a payment dispute goes against you, which has no counterpart on Gettit.

On verification: Gettit requires email and phone verification to buy or sell, one account per person, and an identity check through Stripe before any payout. Its profiles show a blurred area rather than an exact address, and ratings are two-sided and permanent. eBay requires identity and bank verification to be paid, and its feedback system is the oldest reputation signal in online resale. If you have a decade of eBay feedback, you start Gettit at zero.

Listing tools: what Gettit does not have

The feature gap is wide and it runs one way. Some of it is age; some of it is design.

The single-item model is the one to internalise. On Gettit you cannot list twelve of the same phone case as one listing with a quantity of twelve; each is its own listing, and once it sells it is gone. That suits genuinely preloved, one-off stock. It does not suit anyone with depth. eBay used to let every seller do this, and since June 2026 restricts multi-quantity and variations to Pro plans, so a non-Pro eBay seller is closer to Gettit’s model than they were a year ago.

One line in eBay’s Pro comparison matters more for this page than any other: “APIs and third-party integrations” appear as a Pro Basic and above feature. If you are on eBay’s no-fee tier and intend to use any listing tool, including this one, check your account’s current position on that before you plan around it. We have not been able to confirm from eBay’s help pages exactly how the restriction is enforced for existing connections, and we would rather say so than guess.

Which stock belongs where

Gettit’s category tree is general — Electronics through Vehicles & Parts, E-Bikes & E-Scooters, Tools & DIY, Antiques — but its homepage does not hide where it thinks it wins. Baby & Kids is “our speciality,” and Prams & Car Seats and Nursery & Furniture are marked “only here.” That is a pointed claim against the general marketplaces, which have historically been awkward for car seats in particular because of safety-standard and recall concerns. Gettit’s community guidelines require that anything for babies and children meets mandatory Australian safety standards, and single out button-battery products, so the category is policed rather than avoided.

The rest of the split falls out of what each platform can and cannot do:

• Prams, car seats, cots, high chairs, kids’ bikes: Gettit first. It is the category Gettit is building around, the buyer is local, and Secured Pickup solves the “can I see it first?” problem for a $300 pram in a way no posted sale does.
• Bulky items you will not post: Gettit, using local pickup or Secured Pickup. Both cost you nothing.
• Anything a buyer outside Australia would want: eBay. Gettit ships within Australia only.
• Anything you hold in quantity or in sizes: eBay on a Pro plan, since Gettit has no quantities or variations and eBay’s no-fee tier no longer has them either.
• Items whose price is genuinely unknown: eBay, because auctions exist there and not on Gettit.
• Everyday preloved clothing, shoes, homewares, electronics: both. Same photos, same price, and let the buyer fee and reach decide who buys.
• Items over about $1,000: on a no-fee eBay account, eBay — the buyer pays $50 in protection there against $76.50 on Gettit. On a Pro account the arithmetic flips, because a 13.4% commission on a four-figure sale dwarfs both buyer fees.

The local alternatives are worth a sentence each. Gumtree Australia remains the classifieds board with the audience for bulky local sales, and it is a different company from Gumtree in the United Kingdom, with separate accounts. Vinted arrived in Australia on 1 July 2026 with an Australia Post partnership of its own, and is the more direct rival to Gettit for posted fashion than eBay is. Gettit’s answer to both is the buyer guarantee on one side and the baby-and-kids depth on the other.

Running both without selling one item twice

The argument for both is that they cost you nothing to be on and they reach different people. The risk of both is that one pram sells on eBay on Tuesday and on Gettit on Wednesday, and Gettit’s three-business-day dispatch clock is now running on an item you no longer have. A missed dispatch is recorded against your Gettit profile; on eBay a cancelled sale hurts your metrics. Doing this by hand for a handful of items is fine. Doing it for two hundred is where sellers get burned.

This is what FLUF Connect is for, and its capabilities on the two channels are not symmetrical, so here is the honest version.

On eBay, FLUF crosslists your catalogue, keeps stock in sync, brings orders in, relists stale items, and manages offers — accepting, declining and countering within limits you set. Relisting and offer management come with the plans above Starter; crosslisting, inventory sync, order sync and bulk operations are on every plan.

On Gettit, you connect with your ordinary Gettit email and password. There is no browser extension to install. FLUF then publishes your products to Gettit, maps your categories onto Gettit’s tree, and when an item sells anywhere else — eBay, Vinted, your own store — it ends the Gettit listing so the dispatch clock never starts on a sold item. That is the direction that protects your Gettit profile.

What FLUF does not yet do on Gettit is detect a sale made on Gettit itself. If a buyer purchases on Gettit, mark the item sold in FLUF and the eBay listing and every other channel will be pulled down; leave it, and they stay live. Nor does FLUF relist or handle offers on Gettit. Gettit’s Make Offer notifications arrive in its own app and you answer them there. Both limits are stated on the channel page and we would rather you knew before you connected.

Two Gettit-specific things to do before you crosslist anything, because they are about your account rather than your items. First, finish payout setup — Gettit holds a new listing as a draft that buyers cannot see until payouts are in place, and a catalogue of invisible drafts is not a launch. Second, add a return address on Gettit, because a posted listing needs one, and set the Australian address you sell from. FLUF warns you at connection time if either is missing, and passes Gettit’s own instruction through when a listing is refused, but it cannot complete those steps for you.

Because Gettit has no quantities, a product you hold five of becomes one Gettit listing that is ended when the last unit sells elsewhere, not a stock count that ticks down. If quantity matters to you, that is another reason the deep stock lives on eBay and the singles live on both.

What FLUF costs

7 days for £1, then from £9/month, then plans from £9/month. Starter includes unlimited listings, crosslisting to Gettit, eBay and every other supported channel, inventory sync, order sync where the channel supports it, and bulk operations. Relisting, offer management and smart pricing come with the plans above Starter. Save 40% when you pay yearly.

Both marketplaces cost an Australian seller nothing to be on, so the only recurring cost of running the pair is the tool that stops them from selling the same item twice. Reach 51 marketplaces from one catalogue, with Gettit and eBay two of them.

Sources and verification

• Gettit Fees Schedule — version dated 1 August 2026: buyer protection fee on posted (7.5% + $1.50) and Secured Pickup (3.5%) orders, $9.95 return handling fee, refund rules, no separate processing fee.
• Gettit Terms of Service — Gettit Pty Ltd, ACN 699 431 886, ABN 55 699 431 886, Victoria; effective 1 August 2026; held payments through Stripe; protection scope and exclusions.
• Gettit Timings Schedule — three-business-day dispatch, 48-hour confirmation window, 21-day transit limit, return and inspection windows.
• Gettit FAQ — who can use Gettit, prepaid Australia Post labels, satchel guidance, Stripe Connect payouts and identity verification, Make Offer, local handovers at your own risk, prohibited items, ratings.
• Gettit Community Guidelines — prohibited items, safety standards for children’s products, photo and description rules, off-platform payment ban.
• Gettit homepage — category list, “only here” baby-and-kids positioning, free-post badge, tracked Australia Post postage, free local pickup.
• eBay Australia: Free selling is here — $25,000 rolling threshold including tax and shipping, automatic move to Pro Starter, Buyer Protection fee, label-through-eBay requirement, Pro-only features.
• eBay Australia: Important changes to eBay selling — Pro plan tiers, Pro Starter 13.4%, features reserved to Pro plans including third-party integrations.
• eBay Australia: Selling fees without a Pro plan — 250,000 listings a month, 13.4% + $0.30 structure, 3% international fee, Below Standard surcharge, $24.20 dispute fee, GST-inclusive figures.
• eBay Australia: Pro store selling fees — Pro Basic $27.45, Pro Featured $82.45, Pro Anchor $604.95, per-tier final value fees.
• eBay Australia: Buyer Protection fee — $0.30 + 8% / 6% / 4% bands, applies to non-Pro Australian sellers from 12 May 2026, refund rules.
• eBay Australia: Getting paid for items you’ve sold — funds available typically within 48 hours, on-demand payouts without Pro, scheduled payouts on Pro, 1–2 business days to bank.
• eBay Australia: Australia Post on eBay — up to 35% off retail, Parcel Post and Express Post, print in store.
• eBay Australia: Buying shipping labels — QR code option, label requirement for non-Pro sellers.
• eBay Australia: Best Offer — 24-hour response, auto-accept and auto-decline, offers to interested buyers.
• eBay Australia: Adding pictures to your listings — up to 24 photos.
• eBay Australia: Buying with eBay Plus — $4.99 a month or $49 a year, express delivery and returns benefits.
• eBay Inc. Q2 2026 results — 136 million active buyers; Australia C2C commentary.
• eBay Inc. press release, 1 September 2020 — launch in 1999, 11 million unique monthly visitors, 40,000 Australian retailers.
• Broadsheet: Vinted launches in Australia — 1 July 2026 launch and Australia Post partnership.

What we could not verify: Gettit publishes no registered-user count, no live-listing total, no funding or ownership detail beyond the company name, no photo-per-listing limit on a public page, no Stripe payout schedule, and no rule for which items receive the free-post badge; we have not estimated any of these. eBay publishes no current Australian buyer count, so the only Australian audience figure here is its own 2020 press release. eBay’s Pro-plan page lists third-party integrations as Pro Basic and above, and we could not confirm from its help pages how that applies to existing tool connections on the no-fee tier. Fee figures were read from each platform’s own pages on 9 September 2026 and will change; check the linked schedules before pricing.

Related guides

• All marketplace guides
• How crosslisting with FLUF Connect works
• How to sell on Gettit
• How to sell on eBay
• Selling in Australia: the marketplaces that matter
• Gettit vs Gumtree Australia
• Gumtree Australia vs eBay
• How to sell on Vinted